Biblioteca di Rassegna iberistica 30 e-ISSN 2610-9360 | ISSN 2610-8844 ISBN [ebook] 978-88-6969-704-3 | ISBN [print] 978-88-6969-705-0 Peer review | Open access 73 Submitted 2022-10-11 | Accepted 2023-01-30 | Published 2023-05-09 © 2023 Lo Giudice | cb 4.0 DOI 10.30687/978-88-6969-704-3/005 Iberismo(s) editado por Enric Bou y Silvia Lunardi Edizioni Ca’Foscari Joan Estelrich e le relazioni internazionali L’iberismo come trampolino per un’integrazione regionale europea Ivan Lo Giudice Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia Abstract Joan Estelrich’s activism was a key element that characterized his entire life as an intellectual and as a cultural organizer. He considered himself part of a European humanist élite and probably this sense of belonging influenced his understanding of Iberism, which he reckoned to be a pure utopia. He was in favour of a Portuguese-Catalan approach as long as economics was concerned, but he believed that any Iberism regional integration project had to be extended to the whole European continent. The article aims to introduce Estelrich’s realist and pro-European Iberism and ofers some details about the Catalan art exhibition organized in Lisbon in 1921. Keywords Joan Estelrich. Realist Iberism. Portugal. Catalanism. Europe. Sommario 1 La crisi spagnola di inizio Novecento e l’auspicata leadership catalana. – 2 La cultura come ponte tra paesi: l’Esposizione d’arte catalana di Lisbona. – 3 Dall’iberismo limitato e realista all’integrazione europea. – 4 Conclusioni. 1 La crisi spagnola di inizio Novecento e l’auspicata leadership catalana Per rifettere su alcuni aspetti delle relazioni internazionali attra- verso i progetti di un diplomatico e uomo di cultura come Joan Estel- rich Artigues (Felanitx, 1896-Parigi, 1958) bisogna necessariamen- te stabilire fn dal principio due punti fermi: in primo luogo, occorre